The directory below lists some of our graduate students from our graduate programs.
Graduate Student Directory
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Lindsay Massara
PhD Student
- Email: Lmassara@student.ubc.ca
View ProfileLindsay Massara is a PhD student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. Her research examines episodes of emergency and martial law from late nineteenth and early twentieth century British colonial India. Constructing a genealogy or history of the present, Lindsay positions emergency as a lens through which to magnify important relationships and enduring dependencies in common law between race, property logics, and a rule of law.
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Melanie McPhail
PhD Student
- Email: mmcpha01@student.ubc.ca
View ProfileMelanie McPhail is a doctoral student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. Her research investigates the regulation of innovative health technologies, including novel regulatory authorization and reimbursement approaches.
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Ismail Muftau
LLM Student
- Email: ismail31@student.ubc.ca
Ismail is a master student in the research program at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. His research centres around economic integration and intra-African trade, with focus on analysis of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), implementation prospects and challenges of implementation, with Nigeria and South Africa – two largest econonomies in Africa - as case studies.View Profile -
Vitus Ngaanuma
PhD Student
- Email: nvitus@student.ubc.ca
View ProfileVitus is a doctoral student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, and an Allard Scholar Graduate Fellowship Awardee. His research interests are Comparative constitutional law, Constitutionalism, Natural resources governance and sustainability, and Global governance and transnational law. His doctoral research examines the efficiency of parliamentary oversight over natural resource contracts in sub-Saharan Africa within the context of the theories of good governance and institutionalism.
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Ryan Peterson
PhD Student
- Email: rpeterson08@gmail.com
View ProfileRyan Peterson is a doctoral student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. His current reserch centers upon the phenomenological experience of law. His work examines the experiences of legal authorities and how such experiences structure law to the detrminemnt of marginalized populations. Ryan is a former Bar Association President from the state of Minnesota and a former lecturer at Iowa State Univeristy.
- Allard School of Law
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Wei William Tao
LLM Research
- Email: will@heronlaw.ca
View ProfileWei William (Will) Tao is a LLM student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. His current research focuses on the intersections between administrative law, Canadian immigration law, and artificial intelligence. His proposed thesis, supervised by Dr. Asha Kaushal, explores the development of new, robust and responsive, legal analytical frameworks to analyze the judicial review of automated-decision making in immigration, through the perspective of the Federal Court and immigration applicants.
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Helen Tooze
PhD Student
- Email: helen.tooze@ubc.ca
View ProfileHelen Tooze is writing her doctoral thesis at Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the juxtaposition between Canadian and European conventional regulation of the intermediation of complex financial products with a view to assessing each jurisdiction’s systemic risk-related regulation outside of the macroprudential framework.
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Drew Yewchuk
LLM Research
- Email: dyewchuk@student.ubc.ca
View ProfileDrew was formerly a staff lawyer with the University of Calgary's Public Interest Law Clinic from 2018-2022. His work focuses on access to information law, administrative secrecy, species at risk, resource law, and environmental liabilities. His prior writing can be found on the University of Calgary law blog: https://ablawg.ca/author/dyewchuk/
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